> What I am looking for is a book thats:
>
> 1) simple, and fun enough so that he can learn from it without my
> continous assistence. (Of course, I can answer questions, but the idea
> is that I don't want to walk him through all of it.)
>
> 2) doesn't look like it is teaching programming -- it should be more
> like "playing with the computer, and having fun" style, with the
> "learning programming" being a sort of side-effect.
Hi Abel,
Under those restrictions, you may want to look at John Maeda's "Design by
Numbers" book:
http://dbn.media.mit.edu/whatisdbn.html
http://dbn.media.mit.edu/
It's not Python, but it does seem interesting. The book itself is a great
coffee table book, filled with lots of fascinating pictures. Frankly,
it's probably not going to teach many general programming concepts, but it
does give a sense of computation, and, of course, it's pretty.
_______________________________________________
Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
